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I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN MEALEY, OF PRESCOTT, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 299,243, dated May 2'7, 1884:.

Application filed October 6, 1883. (No model.)

To '(LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN MEALEY, of Prescott, Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and Improved Oar-Coupling, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in car-couplings; and it consists of the detailed construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

Figure l is a side elevation of a couple of cars connected by my improved coupling, part of one of the draw-heads being sectioned; and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the coupler with a part of one of the draw-heads in section, and with the car-bodies represented in horizontal section.

A and A represent the housings or sockets of the draw-bars, and B the heads or buifers of the said draw-bars, to which the coupling devices are applied. These buifer-heads are constructed in the ogee form represented in Fig. 2, for causing the sockets b, which I form in them, to register properly with each other for the hooks I) to enter said sockets when the cars run together. These sockets b are in the form of deep grooves cut down in the drawheads from the upper surface, and two are arranged in each head and provided with a strong pin, d, which in one socket hasa coupling-hook, D, pivoted to it, and in the other is arranged to receive and engage the hook Each draw-head is thus provided with one hook and one socket, and the hooks are always placed in the same side, so that the couplings will always match properly when two cars run together. Each hook D is connected by a chain, (1, with the free end of a crank-arm, d", projecting forward from a shaft, (1, supported in bearings d, projecting from the end of the car to which the hook is pivoted, and said shaft has a crank-arm, (P, at each end, extending back along the side of the car for raising the hook therefrom. There is also a bar, (2 connected to thefree end of crank d, and extended up to the top of the car, where it rides by a slot, f, on a support ing-pin, d, of a bracket attached to the car, so as to rest and fall readily when the crank is raised by the arm (P, and so that the crank may be raised by said rod d from the top of the car when desired.

To provide for coupling with the ordinary link-and-pin device, I construct the drawheads with the ordinary link-socket, E, coupling-pin e, and couplinglink O, the said socket E being located between the grooves b for the hooks D, so that any time when a car not having my improved coupling is required to be coupled on it can be, which will often be the case in the great interchange of cars now practiced in railway-traffic.

I propose to fasten the coupling-pins d, and

also the pivot-pins oithe crank-arm, by keys, instead of nuts, as being more secure and less liable to work loose.

In case there is a material difference in the height of cars to be coupled, the hook D of the low car may be raised to hook on, if too low for self-coupling.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentin a car-coupling, the combination of the draw-heads B, each having a socket, E, and two deep grooves, Z), one arranged on each side of the socket, and having a transverse pin, cl, passing through its grooves, said pin having a'pivoted hook, D, and said hooks be ing connected to a crank-arm, cl, of ashaft, (1, having a second crank-arm, d, and said crankarm (Z being connected to a slotted lever, d", substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

- JOHN MEALEY. Witnesses:

GEORGE WHITNEY, FREDERICK JOHN FRENCH. 

